"Write about what you know."

I don't have much to add concerning yesterdays crash of an SR-20 in Manhattan. It's a tragic event anytime a life is cut short in an accident of any description, regardless of the occupation of the pilot. My hope is that when the NTSB concludes it's investigation, us pilots will have something to learn from it.

The media at large managed to completely disappoint me in their coverage of the event, as usual. One day I'll learn not to let it bother me so much, but having seen so much erroneous reporting, speculation, and outright damnation of GA aircraft and the accident in the last 24 hours, it's hard to keep one's stomach from churning in disgust. The AOPA appears to be working every hard to educate the general public about GA, and about this incident itself, but obviously that audience is a lot slimmer than the CNN's and FOX's of the world. Whenever there is an aviation incident running in the daily news, I always think of those two Newsmen who appear in the movie OneSixRight, and how I hope that these 2 guys get to cover such things from now on. At least they are pilots, and may be able to offer some constructive reporting instead of wild speculation. No such luck, I imagine.

As for the incident itself, it's obviously way too early to discuss with any level of detail, and we may never know what happened up there. Either way, it's a sad and tragic event.

John of Aviation Mentor has a good post about it, and summarizes things better than I could. Pay him a visit.